A wealthy real estate investor is forced to watch the rape of his girlfriend and then is sent a film showing the fact. He hires a hitman, Sho, and shows him the film, so that the detective can get rid of the criminals. But the boss of the criminal band is Ko, Sho's archnemesis, who raped and murdered his girlfriend.
Direction
Yamatoya's surrealist touches elevate exploitation into art.
Cinematography
Shadow-drenched compositions that worship at noir's altar.
Writing
Self-aware script about watching and being watched.
Director
Atsushi Yamatoya
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of 1960s 'pink film' movement where directors used exploitation budgets to smuggle art-house experimentation into Japanese cinemas.
The film-within-film structure mirrors how pink films themselves were consumed — furtively, repeatedly, with audiences becoming complicit witnesses.
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